Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday said Georgia would adopt the controversial domestic bill on transparency of foreign influence and at the same time would become a member of the European Union, agenda.ge reports   The most important thing is to protect “national dignity and principles”, which will “bring results in all directions”, Kobakhidze…

Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan Hikmet Hajiyev stated that Baku does not intend to take force actions to create a land corridor through the territory of Armenia to Nakhijevan.   “We are trying to achieve this in a peaceful way. Both countries and the entire region will benefit from the opening of transport links…

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has approved the new composition of the country’s Government, Azerbaijani media reports.   According to the order posted on the website of the head of state, all members of the former Government, except for the Minister of Justice, kept their portfolios. Vilayat Eyvazov was reappointed as the Minister of Internal…

Moscow referred to the domestic political events in Armenia. “Russia is interested in the stable, secure and peaceful development of the allied country”, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Alexei Zaitsev announced during the weekly briefing. “The Russian side thinks that all the issues should be regulated exclusively in the legal-constitutional field, in accordance with democratic procedures”,…

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Founding Chairman of Rasmussen Global and former NATO Secretary General referred to the latest developments in Lachin Corridor.   “Worrying escalation by Azerbaijan. If Baku continues to flout its international commitments and binding court orders from the International Court of Justice, there must be political and economic consequences”, Rasmussen twitted. 

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) should be a balancing factor in the Euro-Atlantic region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview for a documentary, headlined ‘CSTO Allies – 30 Years on Guard of Collective Security,’ TASS reports. “A heated debate is now under way regarding how to implement CSTO summit decisions on…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu informed that the events taking place in Ukraine and the South Caucasus were discussed at the meeting held in Vienna with OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid. “We discussed regional developments in Ukraine and the South Caucasus with Helga Schmid,” Çavuşoğlu wrote on his Twitter microblog.  

The New York-based Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) called on the Azerbaijani authorities to create conditions for unhindered coverage of protests and investigate police violence against press representatives.   Since June 22, Azerbaijani police have detained, beaten, threatened or otherwise obstructed the work of at least six journalists covering environmental protests in the…

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk commented on the sidelines of the XVI Verona Eurasian Economic Forum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on the activities of the trilateral working groups of Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan on the unblocking of regional transport communications and the delimitation of the Armenia-Azerbaijan border.   “Border delimitation between Armenia and Azerbaijan is…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called on the international community to immediately recognize the self-proclaimed Northern Cyprus and reject any deal that does not offer the Turkish Cypriots to create their own state, reports dailysabah.   “I repeat the historic appeal that I made to the whole world from the UN podium: to recognize…

Ameirah AlHefeiti, Deputy Permanent Representative and Acting Chargé d’Affaires delivered a statement regarding the situation in Lachin Corridor and Nagorno-Karabakh during a UNSC meeting commenced by the initiative of Armenia.    The statement reads:    “The United Arab Emirates is closely following the evolving situation along the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan and has taken…

Abdullah Shahid, President of the UN General Assembly, should not have deleted his post about visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial, US Congressman Frank Pallone stated. “33 countries, including the United States, have formally recognized the Armenian genocide. The UN should not be complicit in Turkey’s rejection of history. President of the United Nations General Assembly…

This week, Azerbaijan, which is allegedly inviting back Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh after expelling them from their homes, organized a military parade in Stepanakert, showing off a warrior, calling the Armenians’ right to live in their own land separatism, which should no longer have a place in Azerbaijan.   Meanwhile, international experts state that what happened…

Syuzi Muradyan has talked to Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs of the European External Action Service about the Armenia-EU relations, the humanitarian crisis in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and the decision to deploy an EU civilian mission to Armenia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was welcomed in a lavish ceremony and cheering crowds in Pyongyang on Wednesday (June 19), as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed ‘full support’ for Russia’s war in Ukraine and pledged stronger strategic ties with Moscow, Reuters reports.   An honour guard including mounted soldiers, and a large crowd of…

On November 24, a protocol on the establishment of diplomatic relations was signed between the Republic of Armenia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.   The protocol was signed in Abu Dhabi by the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to the UAE, Karen Grigoryan, and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to…

In Munich US State Secretary took note of significant progress Armenia and Azerbaijan have made over the last several months. During the US State Departments’ Spokesperson Ned Price’s press briefing a journalist asked, “This is a little bit inconsistent with what we have seen – have been seeing the past couple of months. Did the…

Reuters. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian warned on Wednesday (November 1) of “harsh consequences” if attacks continue on the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of warnings from the country, which backs Hamas in Gaza and militias elsewhere in the region.   Speaking during a news conference with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, Amirabdollahian…

Marija Pejčinović Burić, Secretary General of the Council of Europe referred to her and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting.   “Council of Europe’s support to Armenia at the core of my meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan”, Pejčinović Burić said in a post on X.

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation recorded the violation of the contact line and the positional advance by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) on March 25, 2023. The daily bulletin of the Russian Peacekeepers in Artsakh reads:   “On March 25, 2023, a unit of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan, violating…

Moldova and Georgia may not join the European Union with their entire territory; Brussels allows the admission of these countries to the EU “partially.” This was stated by the representative of the European Foreign Service Peter Stano.   According to the European diplomat, the EU is considering the issue of admitting Moldova and Georgia without…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that he predicted a crisis in the opposition alliance. “Let them do what they want, it doesn’t matter, we will continue on our way. We think about us and you, and they think about property,” Erdogan said. Oppositionist Meral Aksener announced yesterday that the “six alliance” no longer reflects…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the UN, held public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by the Republic of Armenia in the case concerning Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, in the frameworks of “Armenia v….